Jazz / Post-Bop; Avant-Garde Jazz
Recorded: Jul 30, 1963
Bassist Charles Mingus would never qualify as a virtuoso on the piano but his technique was reasonably impressive and his imagination quite brilliant. This unique solo piano CD (which was reissued in 1997) has a few standards ("Body and Soul," "Memories of You" and "I'm Getting Sentimental over You") along with some freely improvised originals, most of which are quite fascinating to hear, as if one were listening to Mingus think aloud.
---Scott Yanow, allmusic
Includes original release liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
Charles Mingus - solo piano |
